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Is Into the Wild as rewatchable for everyone else..
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:00 pm
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:00 pm
..As for me. just love this movie through and through. Emile hirsch grabbed me in this. probably my favorite thing ive seen Kristin Stewart also
Casting is awesome. soundtrack is great. I can watch this multiple times a year easy
Casting is awesome. soundtrack is great. I can watch this multiple times a year easy
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Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:02 pm to Chef Leppard
Haven't seen it in years but you're right about the soundtrack
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:05 pm to Chef Leppard
yes. great movie.
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:07 pm to Chef Leppard
I still have yet to see this...
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:07 pm to Walt OReilly
Yea idk if you even have to be a big eddie veddar fan to appreciate how in tune his songs are with the folksy vibe of the movie. I could be wrong though
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:11 pm to Thurber
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I still have yet to see this...
Directed by Sean Penn. With Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener,Marcia Gay Harden, Kristin Stewart, Zach galifinakis, hal Holbrook, William hurt
Do it. Alot of very solid performances in it
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:22 pm to Chef Leppard
Spoilers****
I liked the movie a lot but I had my suspicions on the kid. So I looked it up.
Everyone seemed to feel the same that he was hard headed as frick and doomed himself. Not properly learning to conserve meat for example.
He thought he was living wild in Alaska and a frontiersman but he found a van for shelter that was used by hunters as a shelter. Did he not think "how the hell did this van get here?"
The most arse hole move he made was refusing to bring a map or compass. He died because he was hard headed. Had he had a map he could have found cabins that other people had broken into for survival, trying to do the same thing he did. Had he had a map he could have found out that there was another way to cross the river, iirc.
Loved it when I watched it, but they romanticized a guy that's death/suicide was out of pure stubbornness.
I liked the movie a lot but I had my suspicions on the kid. So I looked it up.
Everyone seemed to feel the same that he was hard headed as frick and doomed himself. Not properly learning to conserve meat for example.
He thought he was living wild in Alaska and a frontiersman but he found a van for shelter that was used by hunters as a shelter. Did he not think "how the hell did this van get here?"
The most arse hole move he made was refusing to bring a map or compass. He died because he was hard headed. Had he had a map he could have found cabins that other people had broken into for survival, trying to do the same thing he did. Had he had a map he could have found out that there was another way to cross the river, iirc.
Loved it when I watched it, but they romanticized a guy that's death/suicide was out of pure stubbornness.
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:23 pm to Chef Leppard
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Is Into the Wild as rewatchable for everyone else..
Totally. I didn't even realize Zach Galifianakis was in this movie until the 4th or 5th time I watched it.
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:49 pm to WITNESS23
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Loved it when I watched it, but they romanticized a guy that's death/suicide was out of pure stubbornness.
I don't really see how this diminishes the story. They weren't portraying him as a hardened trekker. His death was tragic if nothing else because he was an overzealous kid right out of school that wanted to rid himself of material things and embark on a great adventure. It establishes repeatedly that he was in over his head in several situations. He was just a kid with a huge heart that had an impact on practically everyone he encountered
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:52 pm to Chef Leppard
I think the guy was clearly more than just "stubborn," he had to have had some severe mental issues.
Posted on 3/10/15 at 10:57 pm to Chef Leppard
I think it's a bit of a sappy bore.
Posted on 3/10/15 at 11:00 pm to Chef Leppard
Great for one watch but his idiocy and selfishness is infuriating and keeps me from ever watching it again.
This post was edited on 3/10/15 at 11:00 pm
Posted on 3/10/15 at 11:01 pm to Chef Leppard
He went off half cocked. died. The end.
Posted on 3/10/15 at 11:07 pm to WITNESS23
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I liked the movie a lot but I had my suspicions on the kid. So I looked it up. Everyone seemed to feel the same that he was hard headed as frick and doomed himself. Not properly learning to conserve meat for example. He thought he was living wild in Alaska and a frontiersman but he found a van for shelter that was used by hunters as a shelter. Did he not think "how the hell did this van get here?" The most arse hole move he made was refusing to bring a map or compass. He died because he was hard headed. Had he had a map he could have found cabins that other people had broken into for survival, trying to do the same thing he did. Had he had a map he could have found out that there was another way to cross the river, iirc. Loved it when I watched it, but they romanticized a guy that's death/suicide was out of pure stubbornness.
This. He refused to learn about what he was determined to do. I read the book and watched the movie and never once felt sorry for the guy. Just felt like some self important idiot romanticizing an idea of being a mountain man.
Posted on 3/10/15 at 11:09 pm to Chef Leppard
Yeah the kid made a lot of mistakes...but it's not like he hurt anyone. Please don't give me the "He hurt his family" stuff. He was an adult who made his choices. It seems like he was really disenchanted with the status quo and wanted to branch out.
All in all, I loved the movie...very poignant to me.
All in all, I loved the movie...very poignant to me.
Posted on 3/10/15 at 11:10 pm to PowerTool
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he had to have had some severe mental issues.
Where do yall get this shite. His parents were loaded but acted like they practically hated each other. He wanted to find fulfillment and happiness in life through kindness between strangers and venturing into the unknown seeking adventure and experience. There were bound to be brutal lessons. And ultimately he paid for his naivety
I didn't figure it was universally loved by all but jeez
Posted on 3/10/15 at 11:15 pm to Chef Leppard
This is from the guy that drove him up there told...
He was an arse. It absolutely takes away from the story in the sense that he refused help and walked blindly into that to die.
As a columnist from the Fairbanks Daily News put it, "To sell the story, they made it into a fable. He's been glorified in death because he was unprepared."
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“I’ve got ten pounds of rice and that’s all I need,” he said. That was half of what he carried on a trip to Mexico, he added. He had a book about edible plants and berries, “Tanaina Plantlore.” But he didn’t have rubber boots, or waterproof gloves, or snowshoes, or an axe.
“Do you have a compass?”
“I don’t want a compass,” he said. “I don’t have to know where I am.”
“What about a map?”
Nothing other than his road map of Alaska. “I don’t want to know where I’m going,” he said.
He was set on the area around Healy and the broken line of a trail leading west into the country north of Denali – the Stampede Trail.
“There’s a lot better place to go,” Gallien said. “Where you’re going, there’s just going to be tundra, and the mosquitoes are going to eat you up.”
“I’ve got a head net,” said Alex.
“Your feet are going to get wet.”
“I’ll build a fire.”
He was an arse. It absolutely takes away from the story in the sense that he refused help and walked blindly into that to die.
As a columnist from the Fairbanks Daily News put it, "To sell the story, they made it into a fable. He's been glorified in death because he was unprepared."
Posted on 3/10/15 at 11:27 pm to WITNESS23
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To sell the story, they made it into a fable. He's been glorified in death because he was unprepared."
Ok. Im not trying to get anyone to like the movie that doesnt. Youre obviously familiar with the material. But this does not compute to me
This isnt told as a triumphant journey. Its a tragic story about a young guy so disenchanted with the lives he saw around him that he gives his entire savings (24 grand) to charity and foolhardily threw himself into the wild
He didnt do drugs. He didnt panhandle. He left a life of relative comfort and tried to go it alone and share experiences with everyone he encountered. and contribute along the way. He just underestimated mother nature and lost. How exactly does that make him an "arse" ? frick
This post was edited on 3/10/15 at 11:37 pm
Posted on 3/10/15 at 11:42 pm to Chef Leppard
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Im not trying to get anyone to like the movie that doesnt.
I enjoyed the movie
But learning about him made me realize exactly what that guy said. It was a fable not the story of Chris.
And I think he's an arse because he acted like one going into that situation while people tried to help him and tried to tell him to do other things then he is glorified for his stubbornness. (I just use the word arse as a means to describe him as selfish, stubborn, ignorant, etc.)
But to each their own.
ETA:
I guess I tear it apart because I hate when movies/books say based on a true story then don't actually tell that story. If it had just been about some guy who had wanted to live in the wild and been about the thousands that have tried, then so be it. But it glorified a guy who was stubborn and caused his own death. The only "truth" was he up and left, went various places, then alaska, refused help, found a bus, killed a moose (actually a caribou, he didn't even know what he was hunting) and died. (the poison berries are widely rejected too.)
But glad you found it entertaining and inspiring other than that.
This post was edited on 3/10/15 at 11:47 pm
Posted on 3/10/15 at 11:46 pm to Chef Leppard
I can't really answer the question because I've only seen it once but I really liked it. Great story
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